Posted on 11/11/2011 9:22:45 PM PST by iowamark
If you've been following the news this week, you'd get the impression that America is a scandal-plagued nation. Scandals to the right of us, scandals to the left of us.
Take your pick. There’s the media assault on GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, the deadly "Fast and Furious" federal gun-running case, the Solyndra solar loan fiasco, the collapse of MF Global, led by former Democratic N.J. Gov. Jon Corzine and, of course, the deeply disturbing allegations of child sexual abuse at Penn State.
But the real scandal isn’t any one of those. It’s how journalists pick and choose which controversies to play up and which to play down. They are so inconsistent, you’d think they studied ethics at Penn State under Joe Paterno.
Heck, maybe he studied under them.
Take the allegations against Cain. We are watching ABC’s George Stephanopoulos attack Herman Cain on how he deals with women. This is the same George Stephanopoulos who worked for Bill Clinton and did his best to undermine attacks against him. Remember, Clinton was charged with a variety of women-unfriendly incidents including rape. Yes, rape. Not that the networks made a big deal of it at the time.
Here’s Stephanopoulos, on page 267 of his autobiography “All Too Human,” "Most important, I wanted to keep reports of Paula [Jones'] press conference off television ... It wasn't a hard sell.” His book goes on to say how he tried to discredit her. Yes, this openly Democratic operative is a “newsman” now.
Don’t believe it for a second. The different between “journalist” and Democratic Party operative is often non-existent...
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
bump for later reading.
Thanks! People need regular reminders of the incestuous relationship between the top levels of Democrat Party and the so called “News Media”.
Too read in the AM.
All these attacks against our Republic. Just when you hear about an issue that flames your ass and take up battle against it, along comes another just as bad if not worse. It’s like a huge dam springing all these leaks and we’re running out of fingers to help plug the holes. Soon we’ll all be washed away.
How many of the media “elites” have NOT knee-padded for the JACKASS party?
The DNC/Soros/State media is busy with Cain.
This one is worth bookmarking.
I read Stephanopoulos’ autobiography when it first came out about 10 years ago.
In his own words Stephanopoulos reveals himself to be a thoroughly despicable and wretched human being who certainly does not deserve to be interviewing any other human beings on questions of morality.
WE'RE talking about it but most Americans are too numb (for numerous reasons) to care about it. If only a fraction more cared, these people would be out of business.
Then all we need to do is find a network to run it.
Crickets.
Only two hits on Bing for one of the most accurate descriptions of George, et al.: state-controlled unAmerican media (SCUM). One mine repeating another FReeper's use of the term.
.. or my own "skid marks on Journalism's shorts"
Or one based upon Limbaugh's description: state-controlled American media (SCAM)
Thanks for posting. It’s a good article, but unfortunately old news. The American media, all of it, has for some time been a fundamental part of the leftist project. They don’t even try to conceal that fact anymore. Expecting fairness, or even honesty from them is a folly.
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